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Yeah, they were kind of like the 15-minute matinee movies you'd make as a kid if you had about $10,000 to spend. Hit big after the war. Faded out in the early 50's. They relied on a kid's imagination to fill in the blanks. Not sure what a show like Revolution relies on, besides filling up the network lineup with yet another Auto-Cancelbot.

But Warren Buffett could retire on what they spent on promotion for this turkey. Every 8 minutes another %$%#^@ promo for the entire Summer!

J.J. Abrams' new drama "Revolution" got off to a strong start for NBC, earning 11.7 million viewers and keeping almost all of its lead-in audience from two hours of "The Voice," which was up an average of a million viewers over last week's premiere.

One has to wonder how much longer the networks will give JJ Abrams big money to produce these kinds of series...only to watch them fizzle out in the ratings. "The Event" comes to mind. They seem to start out big...and then go away...

Hmmmm. Let's take "Jericho" and "Jeremiah," and blend in the teen girl and bows and arrows from "Hunger Games" to attract a younger crowd with a short attention span, and create a scifi/fantasy potentially plausible situation, then not overthink it ...or rather not give it enough thought....

The script writing is actually ok given the limits of the overall story arc, the acting is fine considering the young actors, and it could be fun. You just have to suspend disbelief, but not as much as say "Warehouse 13" or "Eureka."

"In a hundred years there'll be a whole new set of people."
"Always poke the bears. They sleep too much for their own good."

Well I did watch the first ep just to see if I wanted to keep recording it. It was pretty much what I expected, but it was good enough that I'll maintain the timer but I might not watch another ep until I hear if it gets picked up for another season.

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Adams

"Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?" - Robert Jordan

A couple of parts that made me chuckle; the way the headlights of all the cars went out in sequential order, front of the line to the back, and all the planes falling out of the sky in a flat spin, lights on but every other light in the world was dead. Oh yeah, the crossbow bolts had some pretty awesome stopping power! Miles was missing only the Bruce Lee "wa" on his last kill in the fight on the stairs.

What a great memory, DJ!Excuse me while I go searching desperately for that classic film -- and "Butterfly" (1982) while I'm at it!

Ohhh..... Pia Zadora!

The script writing is actually ok given the limits of the overall story arc, the acting is fine considering the young actors, and it could be fun. You just have to suspend disbelief, but not as much as say "Warehouse 13" or "Eureka."

You've just condensed the disagreement I have with my Brother He wants everything in a TV show to be real world. I just want to be entertained. I like both of those shows. I like Leverage. I liked the closer even though I'm sure that in the real world Brenda would have been in real serious trouble more than once for some of the stunts she pulled. I didn't care I just wanted to be entertained.

I saw a screening at comicon and wasn't overly impressed by it. It wasn't exactly bad nor great either. I really like the genre so I'm going to stick with it for a few more episodes and hope for the best. The characters are kind of hard to like and story isn't anything special yet. The whole thing reminds me of the movie Postman.

...all the planes falling out of the sky in a flat spin, lights on but every other light in the world was dead.

I saw the lights on the planes flickering (same as many other lights/devices were flickering before they went out) -- was a bit hard to discern, though, since they were relatively small and going pretty fast across the screen.

Yeah, a plane suddenly losing its engines and all electrical power wouldn't normally cause it to literally fall out of the sky -- but since they've indicated on the show that the fundamental laws of physics seem to have changed, I guess they can claim that the "event" caused the principles of flight to no longer work correctly.

I have a feeling they intentionally left the nav lights on so we could tell what was falling from the sky since it was night. Guess they figured we weren't smart enough to figure that one out on our own.